Get your year off to a great start and save time by using this handy class policies and routines template in MS Word format.
It’s a great way to let parents know your rules and expectations for the year.
Type in your own content! Change the

This free set is small taste of what the Mastery Club challenge is all about! Thousands of teachers are using Mastery Club to challenge and provide enrichment and fast finisher tasks that allow the student to choose tasks that interest

Here's some fun teacher Christmas themed note paper to print and cut into fourths. Send notes in holiday style!
If you like this, you might also like the Holiday Note Paper Set with 11 holidays included. Notes say, A Message from the Teacher and

Are you looking for a fun way to get students writing an ENJOYING poetry? Have students use their senses and write a five senses poem!
This is a simple poetry lesson that asks students to use their senses to write a five senses poem. Included are

If you are looking to write notes and letters to thank a veteran on Veterans Day, this writing paper set is for you!
These bordered writing papers are great to use to write to family members in the military or who have served, service members

This is a math reference helper chart that is a great quick reference for students in grades 3-5, and special education students of many grades.
This simple chart is perfect for use in a math center, math journal, homework folder, or for use by

Here's a freebie for you just in time for back to school.
Students enjoy word search puzzles and this simple puzzle is perfect for your first week back to school.
For your fast finishers, there's a challenge where students alphabetize the words on

This is a fun Bingo-like game designed to look like holiday fun, but it's REALLY all about practicing math facts and order of operations!
Students create their own unique game board by cutting out and gluing the images onto the game board

This is a set of full page PDF size posters that spell out "DREAM BIG!"
This would be great to use for a writing bulletin board title for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
You can use this set for lots of other things like inspiring students to think

I'm using this 4-page PDF set with a group of 3rd and 4th graders as a writing activity for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
It's got a student journal cover, two pages of bordered lined writing paper, and a page of bordered illustration paper.

This fun BINGO game is designed to allow students to play BINGO about Martin Luther King, Jr. and also to share facts relating to the word being called.
Students cut out and glue the words on their own game board. As you play, you can ask

Are you looking for an all inclusive Greek and Latin Root Words program designed for 3rd, 4th and 5th grades that teaches word affixes, stems and roots and helps improve comprehension? Word Masters teaches students to use the root and stem clues

Exit tickets are the perfect way to do a quick formative assessment of skills.
There are 9 different choices of formats so you can choose the set you like best - color, no color, graphics, no graphics, lined, unlined - use the set that you prefer

This 1-page PDF video notes freebie accompanies an activity on my Earth Day blog post on Mrs. Renz' Class but it is generic so it can work for any video.
Students use this simple form to record facts, opinions, questions, and new vocabulary as

This is a super simple end of year memory book with reflection prompts that prints back to back on one sheet of paper and then folds in half.
It’s easy to print and use and a great way to capture end of year memories while focusing on writing and

This is a fun set of four colorful posters I'm sharing with you to use to motivate your learners!
Poster 1: Do the right thing, even if no one is watching!
Poster 2: Mistakes are learning opportunities
Poster 3: All I can do is the best I can

This is a simple and fun classroom rules poster that focuses on the rule of respect. If you think about it, this one little word, "respect," really covers all of the other classroom rules.
There are two versions for you to choose in PNG format.

This is a free sample of a grade book page you can type your student names and grades into using MS Word. The cute graphics stay "locked" in the background but you can type your content into the tables and save your grade book page for re-use again

This is a sampler of 5 prompts from our Common Core 4th grade math journal. This freebie includes one prompt from each of the five Common Core domains. Answer keys are included.
This set has students writing about their mathematical thinking and

This is a simple and fun Thanksgiving math 'fraction-of" the turkey coloring freebie. Students color the correct fraction of the amount in question.
It's perfect for the few days before Thanksgiving to keep students learning.
The activity

I'm now retired from 34 years teaching in Oregon's public schools and am passionate about helping other teachers by sharing what worked for me. I've taught blends and large class sizes of 30+ students, so the independent projects and activities I developed got students focused and gave me time to teach curriculum to students in the other grade level.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I give students choices using projects, activities, and hands-on materials and integrate technology everywhere possible to get the highest results.

Students rise to our expectations, so we must teach each child as if he or she is gifted and talented. Expect a lot, get a lot!

Students should not have to ask, "When are we ever going to use this?" If you teach with real life applications, they will KNOW.

I live on in Oregon on a 10-acre farm in Oregon with my husband and our sixth Golden Retriever. Our only daughter is a Physical Therapist in New England. I enjoy family times, kayaking, traveling and camping, quilting, reading, and exploring the great outdoors.
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